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THE ARMY OF THE RESERVES.
The First Consul had reached the point he desired.

The Companions of Jehu were destroyed and the Vendee was pacificated.
When demanding peace from England he had hoped for war.

He understood very well that, born of war, he could exist only by war.

He seemed to foresee that a poet would arise and call him "The Giant of War." But war--what war?
Where should he wage it?
An article of the constitution of the year VIII.